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verb (used with object)
1.
to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
2.
to enact or establish by law, edict, etc.: to ordain a new type of government.
3.
to decree; give orders for: He ordained that the restrictions were to be lifted.
4.
(of God, fate, etc.) to destine or predestine: Fate had ordained the meeting.
verb (used without object)
5.
to order or command: Thus do the gods ordain.
6.
to select for or appoint to an office.
7.
to invest someone with sacerdotal functions.
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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English ordeinen < Old French ordener < Latin ordināre to order, arrange, appoint. See ordination
1250–1300; Middle English ordeinen < Old French ordener < Latin ordināre to order, arrange, appoint. See ordination
Related forms
or·dain·a·ble, adjective
or·dain·er, noun
or·dain·ment, noun
re·or·dain, verb (used with object)
self-or·dained, adjective
EXPANDself-or·dain·er, noun
su·per·or·dain, verb (used without object)
un·or·dain·a·ble, adjective
un·or·dained, adjective
COLLAPSESynonyms
3. order, prescribe, determine. 4. predetermine.
3. order, prescribe, determine. 4. predetermine.
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Example Sentences
- Whatever changes occur in cognition over time are surely divinely ordained.
- He was ordained and taught briefly in church schools.
- Baden, a friend of the groom who was ordained by the.
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Word Origin & History
ordain
late 13c., "to appoint or admit to the ministry of the Church," from stem of O.Fr. ordener, from L. ordinare "put in order, arrange, dispose, appoint," from ordo (gen. ordinis) "order." The notion is "to confer holy orders upon" (see order). Meaning "to decree, enact" is from
EXPANDc.1300; sense of "to set (something) that will continue in a certain order" is from early 14c.
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